I Like The Idea Of R-rated Franchises.

You Have The Power To Pause Stuff And You Have The Power To Go To The Bathroom. You Can Do Whatever You Want In Your Own Home. It's A Much More Relaxed Thing. It's More Like A Book, It Seems To Me. That's Kind Of The Way I Watch Movies.

Movies Aren't Finished, They're Abandoned. And You Have To Make Your Peace With That.

What You Learn From That First, And I Don't Call It 'trial By Fire,' I Call It 'baptism By Fire,' Is That You Are Going To Have To Take All Of The Responsibility, Because Basically When It Gets Right Down To It, You Are Going To Get All Of The Blame, So You Might As Well Have Made All Of The Decisions That Led To People Either Liking It Or Disliking It. There's Nothing Worse Than Hearing Somebody Say 'oh, You Made That Movie? I Thought That Movie Sucked,' And You Have To Agree With Them, You Know?

Our Pavlovian Response To Movies Has Gotten To Its Lowest Point Ever. You Look At A Lot Of Movies That Are Successful And A Lot Of Movies That Studios Hold Up As Examples And You Go, 'my God, That Isn't Even A Story. It Isn't Even Two Acts. It's Eight Set Pieces Drawn Out With Slow Motion.' The Difficulty For Me Was That You Had To Hope That People Were Interested In This Kind Of A Story.

There Are Some Movies I Can Watch Over And Over, Never Get Sick Of.